Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine someone who thinks they're too good for icing, yet thinks cupcakes are a legitimate adult good.

Cupcakes from a good bakery, with butter or cream cheese frostings, are fantastic. Grocery store and low rung cupcake retailers are rubbish.

The ones baked by good home bakers are often the best of all.

In my experience, usually good cake and good frosting go together. So, if the cupcake is worth eating, then I eat the whole thing. If it's not, then I decline the whole thing. Deconstructing the food someone serves you is rude. I guess if you're home alone with the left overs from your kid's birthday you can do what you like.

Sure. And most home bakers using buttercream or cream cheese based frostings don’t overdo the frosting. Too much frosting seems to be fueled by retailers trying to make their cupcakes look extraordinarily decadent and instagram’able. More a visual thing than taste thing, hence why you ought to bin most of it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine someone who thinks they're too good for icing, yet thinks cupcakes are a legitimate adult good.

Cupcakes from a good bakery, with butter or cream cheese frostings, are fantastic. Grocery store and low rung cupcake retailers are rubbish.

The ones baked by good home bakers are often the best of all.

In my experience, usually good cake and good frosting go together. So, if the cupcake is worth eating, then I eat the whole thing. If it's not, then I decline the whole thing. Deconstructing the food someone serves you is rude. I guess if you're home alone with the left overs from your kid's birthday you can do what you like.

Home baked?? DCUM says NO. They may have cats or children. They may not wash their hands. I have learned here that homemade food is a death trap.

DCUM has thoughts about cupcakes. I like this thread!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I break off the bottom and make a little sandwich.

This is ingenious. Thank you.

Apparently we are the only ones who didn’t know this method! What else don’t we know???

Yes, I am also wondering what I haven't learned about cupcake consumption.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I break off the bottom and make a little sandwich.

This is ingenious. Thank you.

Apparently we are the only ones who didn’t know this method! What else don’t we know???

I learned it from Anne Hathaway on some talk show.

I learned it from Duff Goldman

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine someone who thinks they're too good for icing, yet thinks cupcakes are a legitimate adult good.

Cupcakes from a good bakery, with butter or cream cheese frostings, are fantastic. Grocery store and low rung cupcake retailers are rubbish.

The ones baked by good home bakers are often the best of all.

In my experience, usually good cake and good frosting go together. So, if the cupcake is worth eating, then I eat the whole thing. If it's not, then I decline the whole thing. Deconstructing the food someone serves you is rude. I guess if you're home alone with the left overs from your kid's birthday you can do what you like.

Anonymous wrote:I have to say OP, I think most adults either decline the cupcake or eat it all. Rarely are cupcakes served with knives. It’s hardly the pinnacle of manners to be scrapping frosting blobs off a cupcake with a napkin or worse, inverting the cupcake and scraping on plate. Either eat it or don’t.

Some people like to make a spectacle. It's performance art.

Anonymous wrote:I have to say OP, I think most adults either decline the cupcake or eat it all. Rarely are cupcakes served with knives. It’s hardly the pinnacle of manners to be scrapping frosting blobs off a cupcake with a napkin or worse, inverting the cupcake and scraping on plate. Either eat it or don’t.

Agreed

Anonymous wrote:Imagine someone who thinks they're too good for icing, yet thinks cupcakes are a legitimate adult good.

Cupcakes from a good bakery, with butter or cream cheese frostings, are fantastic. Grocery store and low rung cupcake retailers are rubbish.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I break off the bottom and make a little sandwich.

This is ingenious. Thank you.

Apparently we are the only ones who didn’t know this method! What else don’t we know???

I learned it from Anne Hathaway on some talk show.

I have to say OP, I think most adults either decline the cupcake or eat it all. Rarely are cupcakes served with knives. It’s hardly the pinnacle of manners to be scrapping frosting blobs off a cupcake with a napkin or worse, inverting the cupcake and scraping on plate. Either eat it or don’t.

I used to work at a place that celebrated office birthdays with cupcakes from a very good nearby baker in the conference room. So like once a month we'd have cupcakes. They were very decadent with tons of frosting so actually lots of people were not eating a whole cupcake. Often I'd eat half and then put the rest in a Tupperware to take home and share with my BF or have for dessert. But there was no pressure to eat the cupcakes and it was common for people to be like "oh just give me a piece of one, I'm too full from lunch" or whatever. Also fine to eat a whole one and enjoy it. A no judgment environment.

But then we had this one woman who was the worst. She'd come in late and when asked if she wanted a cupcake, would loudly explain that she "shouldn't" and then start talking about how refined sugar causes cancer. Like she'd wait until everyone else in the room was eating a cupcake and then be like "Oh I couldn't possibly -- they've found a link between refined sugars in foods like this and cancer-causing agents. Didn't you read that thing in the Times?"

It was so annoying. Just eat a cupcake or not but shut up about it.

Imagine someone who thinks they're too good for icing, yet thinks cupcakes are a legitimate adult good.

I eat it on a cupcake, but on a cake, I'll move the decoration icing to the side.

I rarely eat either though.

The frosting is probably healthier than the cake.